A reference list highlights the relevance and qualitative level of research conducted by the author. These recommendations are compiled in accordance with global trends and contribute to greater openness of scientific publications as well as improve the performance of articles and their authors in databases.
Recommendations on completeness and representativeness
- Volume. It is recommended to include in the list of references scientific articles, monographs, conference proceedings, electronic resources with a date of reference. The list of references should include at least 20 scientific publications available to a wide range of English-speaking readers.
Available publications are the following:- Scientific publications indexed in Scopus or Web of Science databases.
- Open access scientific publications in English in peer-reviewed scientific sources.
- Open access scientific publications and patents in a language other than English in peer-reviewed scientific sources that have English-language metadata (source name, the title of the article, author's data, abstract, keywords, list of references) links to the publication.
It is strongly recommended not to include textbooks, teaching aids, lecture notes and other educational literature in the article, dissertation, interstate and state normative documents, standards, instructions.
- Relevance. For a representative review of the literature, it is necessary that the sources were relevant. We recommend to have in the list of literature at least 8 articles from scientific journals not older than 10 years, 6 of them not older than 3 years.
- Geography. According to the requirements of the online publication, the literature review should confirm the lack of a solution to the stated goal in the world literature, and therefore recommend that you have in the references not only your country but also foreign publications. The recommended volume is not less than half of the total number of sources in the literature list. Foreign sources are publications published in a foreign journal (not your country). The language of publication, in this case, is irrelevant.
- Self-citation. The permissible number of publications of authors and co-authors of an article in the reference list should be no more than 10%.
Requirements for the list formating
The correctly written description of the source is a guarantee that the cited publication will be taken into account when assessing the author's scientific activity.
The quoted literature is compiled in a general list at the end of the article according to the order of appearance in the text. The reference number in the text is enclosed in square brackets (e.g. [9], [11, 12], [16–20]). The article should contain references to all sources from the list of references.
When referring to a source we kindly ask you to use its official metadata.
It is highly recommended to use DOI if it is available.
Examples
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book
Author, F., Author, S., Author, T.: Book title. 2nd edn. Publisher, Location (1999).
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article
Author, F.: Article title. Journal 2(5), 99–110 (2016).
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conference paper
Author, F., Author, S.: Title of a proceedings paper. In: Editor, F., Editor, S. (eds.) CONFERENCE 2016, vol. 9999, pp. 1–13. Publisher, Location (2016).
Author, F.: Contribution title. In: 9th International Proceedings on Proceedings, pp. 1–2. Publisher, Location (2010).
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electronic resource
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